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From his earliest memories, Sean Baker always has had his eyes on making movies. With acclaimed indies including Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket, he has become a leading voice in the independent film scene. But now his wildly praised comedy Anora — which follows the unorthodox relationship and quickie marriage between an […]

More than 20 years later, Lindsay Lohan is getting the band back together for Freakier Friday. In the upcoming sequel to her 2003 Disney film, which premieres Aug. 8, 2025 in theaters, Lohan’s character Anna Coleman will reunite with her high school garage band Pink Slip, which also consisted of pals Maddie (Christina Vidal) and […]

For director Malcolm Washington, generational Black resilience and complex familial bonds are the underlying themes in front of and behind the camera for Netflix’s The Piano Lesson. Making his feature film debut, Washington enlisted the talents of his family as his brother, John David Washington, plays the lead role alongside appearances from his mother, Pauletta, […]

Over the past couple of years, conversation around AI has been virtually inescapable for any part of the economy, but especially in entertainment. The dual strikes of 2023 put the technology under a bright spotlight, and a series of deals in the year since labor peace was achieved offer more clues about how it is […]

The world of music documentaries is a complex one. There are plenty of films covering the biggest artists in the world from Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé to Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Hulu’s Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ’64. But under the surface, music like alternative music […]

Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, its annual all-say awards-season movie showcase that took place November 16 at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. Click here to launch the streaming site. This year’s lineup featured the stars and creatives behind 21 movies catching buzz this year, with panelists hitting the […]

EXCLUSIVE: On the back of Smile 2‘s box office success, Raúl Castillo has come aboard for a supporting role in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, 20th Century Studios’ remake of the classic 1992 psychological thriller, starring Maika Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Castillo takes over the part of Matt McCoy as the architect husband of […]

If you had any doubt that the awards season was in full swing, Sunday night’s 15th Annual Governors Awards ceremony answered it. If you are, or in any way think you might have a shot at an Oscar nomination this year, and were in Los Angeles, it is most likely I might have run into […]

UPDATED with latest: Angelina Jolie will receive the Palm Springs Film Festival’s 2025 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for her “extraordinary portrayal” of Maria Callas in Maria. “Maria presents the iconic Angelina Jolie in the role of a lifetime as she embodies Maria Callas, the world-renowned opera legend. Jolie’s extraordinary portrayal captures the heart and complexity of an […]

Bleecker Street has swooped on Relay, acquiring U.S. rights to the high-concept contemporary thriller, starring Riz Ahmed, Lily James and Sam Worthington, which impressed in its world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Written by Justin Piasecki and directed by David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water), the film will be released in theaters sometime […]

Timothée Chalamet immersed himself as Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, which his co-stars were supportive of. In a new interview, co-star Edward Norton opened up about seeing Chalamet’s process into playing the singer-songwriter in the James Mangold-directed film. In the new issue of Rolling Stone with Chalamet on the cover, Norton says, […]

Jonathan Bailey may be a Sharma now, but he will always make time for the Bridgerton clan. In a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the Emmy nominee reaffirmed he would appear in the fourth installment of Netflix’s smash-hit period dramedy Bridgerton as the ever-charming viscount. “Gonna reunite with the family next week,” […]

Gladiator II star Paul Mescal is unpacking some of his previous comments about audiences’ parasocial relationship toward him. “It’s just a weird thing because ultimately I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but we know a lot about each other because we’re visible the whole time,” the Academy Award nominee said recently on an […]

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve knew the storytelling success of Dune: Part Two hinged on the developing chemistry between stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, as well as the antagonistic energy of Austin Butler, and worked carefully with the actors to ensure that those elements showed up onscreen. Speaking during the Dune: Part Two panel along with screenwriter […]

For actor Jeremy Piven and his sister, filmmaker Shira Piven, their film The Performance wasn’t only a long-fought labor of love 15 years in the making, it was the fulfillment of a family legacy. Appearing together on a panel for The Performance at Deadline’s Contenders Los Angeles event on Saturday, the siblings revealed that the project originated as a […]

Descendants: The Rise of Red star China Anne McClain reflected on her friend and former co-star, the late Cameron Boyce, saying the Disney actor would have been “really excited” about the film franchise’s trajectory. “I think that he would’ve been really excited to see it and to see how [the movie] turned out because, to […]

Robbie Williams takes responsibility for his role in the darker chapters of his life. His unconventional biopic Better Man pulls no punches when it comes to his addictions and abuses. “There were many villains in this movie until we legally couldn’t have many villains in this movie,” Williams said of the Paramount Pictures release. “Now […]

For Pamela Anderson, Gia Coppola’s drama The Last Showgirl was an opportunity she’d been awaiting for her entire life. “It was such a relief to … be able to do a real film,” said the star, who rose to fame in Playboy and on Baywatch, in a sit-down Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Los Angeles. “I […]

Nicolas Cage is unrecognizable as the title character in the horror movie Longlegs. Key special effects makeup artist Felix Fox, key makeup artist Madelaine Hermans and key hairstylist Kristin Chaar worked 2½ hours every day to transform Cage into the satanic serial killer. “There was about four designs,” Fox said. “What they settled on after […]

At the core of DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot is the heartfelt concept of creating your own found family. The sci-fi animated adventure film — written and directed by Chris Sanders based on the 2016 Peter Brown bestseller — follows Rozzum, a robot that gets shipwrecked during a typhoon on an island populated with animals but […]

Contenders Film: Los Angeles photo studio hosted talent on November 16 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles as cast members of films stopped by including Brian Tyree Henry, Ryan Destiny, and Rachel Morrison from The Fire Inside; Maisy Stella from My Old Ass; Jharrel Jerome, Judy Robles and William Goldenberg from Unstoppable; […]

Reuniting with filmmaker Mike Leigh for Hard Truths three decades after her breakthrough in their collaboration Secrets and Lies, Marianne Jean-Baptiste embarked on an unconventional route with the director to create not just her character, but the film’s story and fully-formed world. “The initial conversation is usually ‘Should we work together again? I don’t know what it’s going […]

USPS will feature new postage stamps dedicated to Betty White, set to be released for usage in 2025. In a press release dated Friday, the government agency provided a sneak peek at some of the stamps going into circulation next year, which include everything from revered pop icons to tributes for history and natural beauty. […]

Reflecting on her wide-ranging oeuvre — which will include the forthcoming Babygirl — Nicole Kidman said it seems harder to make and greenlight projects nowadays, especially if they’re not big tentpole draws. “Everything’s hard now,” she told Vanity Fair in a new interview. “Actually everything. I mean, maybe not Deadpool, but there’s nothing that’s, ‘Oh my gosh. Yep. This […]